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The Aleppo Codex (Hebrew: כֶּתֶר אֲרָם צוֹבָא), a Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) with Tiberian vocalization and masoretic
notes (c. 920). The letter-text was penned by the scribe Shlomo ben Buya`a, and then it was vocalized, annotated and corrected by the masorete Aharon ben Asher.
This manuscript is the supreme exemplar of the Tiberian masorah. Today it is manuscript No. 1 of the Ben-Zvi Institute, and is currently housed and displayed in the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum (Jerusalem). However, the Aleppo Codex was severely damaged in modern times and some 40% of it was lost, including almost all of the Torah. Two photographs of now-lost pages from the Torah (one from Genesis and one from Deuteronomy), along with a recovered fragment from Exodus, are appended at the end of this item.
Table of Contents (for an online text of this codex that is fully indexed by chapter and verse numbers see Mikra'ot Gedolot Haketer or the fascimile edition):
- Deuteronomy, p. 1 (begins at 28:17)
- Joshua, p. 12
- Judges, p. 41
- Samuel, p. 71 (2 Samuel, p. 110)
- Kings, p. 141 (2 Kings, p. 179; missing 14:21-18:13)
- Isaiah, p. 209
- Jeremiah, p. 260 (missing or damaged 29:9-32:25)
- Ezekiel, p. 324
- Twelve Prophets: Hosea, p. 379; Joel, p. 386; Amos, p. 389 (ends with 8:12 on p. 394); Obadiah (missing); Jonah (missing); Micah, p. 393 (starts at the end of 5:1); Nahum, p. 396; Habakkuk, p. 398; Zephaniah, p. 400 (ends middle of 3:20 on p. 402); Haggai (missing); Zechariah, p. 403 (begins end of 9:17); Malachi, p. 406.
- Chronicles, p. 410 (2 Chronicles, p. 443)
- Psalms, p. 485 (missing 15:1-25:1)
- Job, p. 541
- Proverbs, p. 564
- Ruth, p. 586
- Songs of Songs, p. 589 (ends middle of 3:11)
- Photographs and fragment, p. 591
Source and other technical information about this item:
- Photography by Ardon Bar-Hama (website, full scan). For this manuscript's bibliographical record at the National Library of Israel, see here.
- These photographs of the Aleppo Codex were first made available to the public online at the website <aleppocodex.org> (which now points here). A copy of those images was subsequently uploaded to Seforim Online (#263), along with a scan of the fascimile edition (#262).
- The images from Seforim Online were uploaded to Internet Archive in 2011 by "manuscripts". The current item is a copy of the original files from that upload ("Aleppo_Codex_images.zip"), but here the images are displayed correctly in right-to-left order; furthermore, additional high-quality scans of the photographs of missing pages have been appended at the end.
- There is also a copy of the scan of the fascimile edition at Internet Archive, which indicates the book along with chapter and verse numbers at the bottom of each page.
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